DR. JAMES HARVEY
Real Name: Dr. James Harvey
Occupation: Psychic Investigator and Psychiatrist
Known Relatives: Amelia (wife, deceased), Kathleen (“Kat,” daughter),
Base of Operations: Friendship, Maine
First Appearance: Casper (1995)
History: Dr. James Harvey was a practicing psychiatrist until his wife,
Amelia, died.
Her death was a tragic loss for him, but it also left him with the sole task of
raising his daughter Kat on his own. Unable to cope with his wife’s death, he developed
an interest in the afterlife and started studying it trying to contact his
wife's spirit for guidance until it overwhelmed him.
He traveled the country trying to get in touch with Amelia through psychics,
mediums and reputed haunted houses as he dragged his daughter around with him.
In 1995, they finally ended up in Friendship, Maine to explore another strange old house
known as Whipstaff. The owner died however
without paying a cent of the money she had promised him, and Dr. Harvey acquired
the house legally afterward from which he bases his parapsychology institute.
Comments: Dr. Harvey presides in the Old McFadden Mansion known as
Whipstaff.
Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci and Amy
Brennaman portrayed Dr. Harvey, Kat Harvey and the late Amelia Harvey,
respectively.